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Cameron stops to get gas soon after beginning a road trip. He checks his distance form home 2 hours after filling his gas tank and checks again 3 hours later. The first time he checked, he was 170 miles from home. The second time, he was 365 miles from home. What equation models Cameron’s distance from home as a function of the time since getting gas

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Answer: y = 73x

Explanation:

if you add the hours, they add up to 5 total hours. the distance from home in 5 hours after getting gas is 365 miles. divide 365 by 5 do figure out home many miles he drives in an hour. it’s 73. so y (total distance) = 73 (distance per hour) • x (number of hours)

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